James Franco was sued on Monday for allegedly head-butting a photographer during a Lana Del Ray concert at Hollywood Forever Cemetery in 2014.
According to reports, the lawsuit was filed in Los Angeles Superior Court. In the lawsuit, David Tonnessen says he was taking pictures at the show when he saw James Franco “smiling rather demonically.”
After which, the lawsuit claims, James Franco, with a “blank expression of joy on his face,” charged Tonnessen and head-butted him in the stomach, sending him to the ground “in shock and pain.”
“Following the assault, battery and intentional inflection of emotional distress, defendant Franco ran laughing into the crowd, leaving Plaintiff wounded and in pain on the ground,” the complaint alleges.
The suit seeks unspecified damages.
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